[MPlayer-users] Re: mencoder uses up all my ram after "moving" tonew hardware

[justin case]

> > after moving my bttv-card to another pc (1,5 ghz duron, 384mb
> ram, redhat9
> > on 2.6.0 kernel with all modules compiled into kernel), the
> below mencoder
> > script eats up all ram within minutes @ approx. 60% load. then it keeps
> > encoding with around 4000k free memory.
>
> There's nothing wrong about that.  The kernel just uses the rest of the
> memory as disk cache.
> free output should be more interesting than top, especially the
> free column in the "-/+ buffers/cache" row, which tells you how much of
> the memory is not in use by applications.

so after checking the output of free, i feel a lot better about things ;)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        384644     380168       4476          0     168360     159708
-/+ buffers/cache:      52100     332544
Swap:       257032       3788     253244
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

so left for me to fix are the errors shown in the system-log:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jan  3 19:58:16 atom kernel: i2c_adapter i2c-0: sendbytes: error - bailout.
Jan  3 19:58:16 atom kernel: msp34xx: I/O error #1 (read 0x12/0x18)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

and more (and worse):
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jan  3 22:15:00 atom kernel: bttv0: skipped frame. no signal? high irq
latency?
Jan  3 22:16:16 atom kernel: i2c_adapter i2c-0: sendbytes: error - bailout.
Jan  3 22:16:16 atom kernel: msp34xx: I/O error #1 (read 0x12/0x18)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
cpu-usage whilst this was always far under 100%.

any ideas?


regards,
/jc